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Brevard & state - BREVARD AT LARGE

April 14, 1995|By Allen Rose of The Sentinel Staff

Superbrevioli. We have a little disruption in the Brevard At Large schedule this weekend. That's because today we're moving our Cocoa office from 200 Willard Street to 631 Brevard Avenue. As a result, there will be no column on Saturday. Normally, we publish on Saturday a comprehensive list of weekend things to do around the Space Coast. We don't want to see you folks set adrift this weekend, so we are publishing the normal Saturday fare today.

In other BAL matters, I was surprised that I got only two phone calls relative to that stuff I wrote about Truman dropping the A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I thought it should have been dropped on a military outpost in the Pacific instead of a city full of civilians. A 67-year-old man, who was a 19-year-old soldier at the time, said we should have dropped it where we did. He was on Okinawa, waiting to be part of a probable invasion of Japan. Had I been in his shoes, I might feel as he does. The other call was from a 42-year-old woman, who agreed with me that the killing and maiming of thousands of noncombatants was wrong.

And congratulations once again to author Patrick Smith of Merritt Island, who has won the Order of the South, the highest literary award of the Southern Academy of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Previous recipients: Eudora Welty, James Dickey and Reynolds Price. Smith has written six novels, many short stories, essays and articles. He has been nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for literature. Two of his novels have been made into movies.